1971:
With the help of Ahmet and Nesuhi Ertegün of Atlantic Records, in 1967 Claude Nobs, Géo Voumard and René Langel founded the Montreux Jazz Festival. Originally a jazz festival, it opened up to other music genres in the 1970s. Led Zeppelin played Montreux that year and the next.

In British slang, a nob is an important person, a person of social distinction. In 1970 Eva Von Zeppelin threatened to sue the band for making money off her family name. “Then we shall call ourselves the Nobs when we go to Copenhagen,” shrugged Page. “The whole thing is absurd.”

Did Led Zeppelin choose to call themselves The Nobs for a little while because of Claude or because of Eva? Jimmy Page hasn't explained.

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